The Argosy, Vol. XXIV No. 2 — page 189: what you’re looking at

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WHEN LOVE BEGINS. 381 Was it accident, or what, which brought them without knowing it to a spot which to each was full of painful memories ? Raby was the first to stop abruptly. ‘“Let us go another way, Mr. Jeffreys, if you don’t mind. I don’t like this avenue.’’ ‘No more do I,’’ said Jeffreys, who had stopped too. ‘Why ?’’ she said. ‘“ Need I say ?”’ ‘“ Not if you don’t like.’’ ‘“IT have not walked down here since an afternoon last October. ‘There was a sudden storm of rain i ‘What! Were you here then ?’’ ‘‘IT was. You did not see me.”’ ‘“'You saw me, then. I was with Mr. Scarfe.’’ ‘“Yes. You were a : ‘‘ Miserable and angry,’’ said she, her face kindling at the recollection. He darted one glance at her, as brief as that he had darted on the after- noon of which they spoke. Then he had read nothing but despair for himself ; now, though her eyes were downcast and her voice angry, he thought he read hope. ‘‘ Suppose,’’ said he, in a little while, ‘‘ instead of running away from the path, we just walk down it together. Would you mind? Are you afraid ?’’ ‘“No,’’ said she, smiling. And they walked on. Talbot Baines Reed, THE END. WHEN LOVE BEGINS. WHEN love begins the pulses go No longer sluggish, tame or slow, But looking down from heights of bliss Man learns to know what rapture is, And all his feelings finer grow. How very gay the ardent beau, How all his thoughts with fervor glow ! What wondrous happiness is his When love begins ! Ah, there is one who can bestow The ecstasy I fain would show A beauteous, captivating miss— You smile, Clarisse? IJ’ll take a kiss, For by your eyes I see you know When love begins. Nathan M, Levy. Gomichbooks. co